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Should I ship a Strategy RPG Stealth game?
Stealth + Strategy RPG
Only 19 developers shipped a Strategy RPG Stealth game in the last 2 years, too few for firm odds: the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.; the top game by est. revenue, Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 37 more are announced, ×3.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, level with the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $120; 1 in 20 cleared $2.6M, ×4192 the market median. Revenue is down 50% on the market; 37 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $117 (exactly $117) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $2.2k (exactly $2,156) |
| Top 5% | $2.6M (exactly $2,632,522) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 62 |
| Announced | 37 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
momentum: how a niche's revenue percentiles and developer count moved between two equal, adjacent periods, divided by the market's own move. See method., 12 months: revenue down 50% on the market, supply 40% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Stealth
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Strategy RPG
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Stealth, Strategy RPG; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry RPG, Strategy, Tactical RPG
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $29.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Isometric, 2D, Story Rich
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 3,609 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 7 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 37 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Stealth with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + WargamePoor odds
- + DinosaursPoor odds
- + Gun CustomizationPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Cold WarPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + WarPoor odds
Comparable games
Kenshi 2018 · $89M 
Partisans 1941 2020 · $6.8M 
Cyber Knights: Flashpoint 2025 · $2.6M 
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis 2021 · $1.0M 
Classified: France '44 2024 · $1.0M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Kenshi | older | $29.99 | 98,451 95% | 3.0M | $89M (exactly $88,576,365) | Lo-Fi Games |
| | Partisans 1941 | older | $29.99 | 7,531 82% | 226k | $6.8M (exactly $6,775,641) | Alter Games |
| | Cyber Knights: Flashpoint | $29.99 | 2,926 93% | 88k | $2.6M (exactly $2,632,522) | Trese Brothers | |
| | Siege Survival: Gloria Victis | older | $24.99 | 1,367 79% | 41k | $1.0M (exactly $1,024,840) | Black Eye Games |
| | Classified: France '44 | older | $39.99 | 844 70% | 25k | $1.0M (exactly $1,012,547) | Absolutely Games |
 | Capes | older | $39.99 | 446 67% | 13k | $535k (exactly $535,066) | Spitfire Interactive |
 | Silent Storm Gold Edition | older | $9.99 | 963 88% | 29k | $289k (exactly $288,611) | Nival |
 | Jagged Alliance: Rage! | older | $19.99 | 387 49% | 12k | $232k (exactly $232,084) | Cliffhanger Productions |
 | The Stone of Madness | $29.99 | 199 77% | 6.0k | $179k (exactly $179,040) | The Game Kitchen | |
 | EVOTINCTION | older | $29.99 | 173 86% | 5.2k | $156k (exactly $155,648) | Spikewave Games |
 | 晨昏线 | $9.99 | 427 76% | 13k | $128k (exactly $127,972) | Enter Games | |
 | Paracom | $10.99 | 21 90% | 630 | $6.9k (exactly $6,924) | Steel Widow Klan | |
 | Catolonizer | · EA | $5.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $2.2k (exactly $2,156) | Alin Games |
 | Pretty Agent 2 | $4.99 | 7 28% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | MC GAME | |
 | Dream Dazia | $9.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | CosmoRetro Studios LLC | |
 | Fake It | $2.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $807 (exactly $807) | Androbyte | |
 | The King of Assassins - The Kingdom | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Faith Studio Team, Rabie Mounther Haddad | |
 | AO: Containment Breach | · EA | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Prismatix- |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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